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CVE-2023-20274

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20274 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the installer script of Cisco AppDynamics PHP Agent. It allows an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root due to insufficient permissions set on the agent's install directory. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is it being actively exploited, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
21.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:appdynamics:21.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:appdynamics:21.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:appdynamics:21.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:appdynamics:21.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cisco:appdynamics:21.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
8.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

sec.cloudapps.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-appd-php-authpriv-gEBwTvu5
Vendor Advisory